Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-09-08

bad this year.
CLINTON, Mo-, has an artesian well
that flows $50. 900 gallons of water IN
twenty-four hours.
HUTCHINSON is to have the Tree
mail delivery system Oct. 1st. Great
Bend will be next.
IT is reported that track laying Will
soon commence ON the Midland rail-
road in Rice county.
THE next meeting OF the National
Cattle Growers Association will be held
in Kansas City in November.
THE German Catholics in convention
assembled in Chicago, adopted reso-
luton denouncing the Knights of
Labor.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has decided
OH the date of his visit to st. Louis. He
will be there on the 1st of October and
remain three days.
\ COAL tram on the Missouri Pa
cific was thrown from the track near
Lawrence Sunday resulting in the kill
ing of the engineer, fireman and head
brakeman.
The two street railway companies
at Topeka had another row Saturday
over the laying of their respective lines.
These roads seem to think they own
the Capital City.
THE telegraph operators along the
line of the \. Il. & S. F. railroad are
all joining the National Association of
Telegraphers. The object of which is
| for mutual protection.
THE New York Central railroad is
the first to abolish the stove nuisance
in its cars. Now let others follow and
we shall hear less of people being roast
ed alive during railroad wrecks.
a BOLT of lightning in Wisconsin
killed bull which was chasing farm
Ell, and another i'll Kentucky killed d
wOuld-be-assassin who was hiding to
kill preacher. Funny country this.
A MAN in Illinois has raised 81 child
rem. And he figures that the Soothing
syrup, teething rings, safety pins and
nursing bottles have cost him a good
farm. Children come high, but we
must have them.
THE wife of Charles Collins of Kan
sas eloped i'll 1885. One day last week,
as he left Cleveland on train he sat
down beside her in coach and they
rode ninety miles in the same seat
without speaking.
THE Royal theatre of Exeter, Eng
land, was burned Monday night, caus-
ing the loss of the lives of $50 persons.
Great excitement prevailed and num-
Der of the killed were tramped to death
in their efforts to escape.
NOTWITHSTANDING the proclama-
ton of the Irish National Land League
by the. British government, meeting
was held at Ennis, Sunday attended
by ten thousand people. Twelve bands
furnished music. Speeches were made
by Il number of the members of the
House of Parliament.
PRAIRIE chickens are ripe from the
first OF this month to January first, and
may be picked with impunity and a
shotgun, providing the impunity car
RES the signature of the farmer on
whose land the hunting is done and the
shotgun is pointed at the game and
not towards the shooter.
The fifth annual state fair will be
held at Topeka, September 10Th to oath
Extensive preparations have already
been made and it will, without doubt,
be one of the most successful exhibitions
OF the kind ever witnessed in Kansas.
Although the crops of the state are not
up to the usual standard, still the agri-
cultural display at this fair and at
others to be held elsewhere in the state
will go far towards convincing the out
side world that Kansas farmers can pro
duce enough for home consumption in
the most disastrous crop years.
EXCURSIONS.